[central_va]

I guess if you can buy off on the premise that fighting fellow Americans who simply want their independence from FedGov™ is the moral equivalent of fighting barbaric religious terrorists, then the screed has some merit. IMO I cannot buy off on that premise therefore this whole thing is rubbish to me.

[Non-Sequitur]

I guess if you can buy off on the premise that fighting fellow Americans who simply want their independence from FedGov™ is the moral equivalent of fighting barbaric religious terrorists, then the screed has some merit. IMO I cannot buy off on that premise therefore this whole thing is rubbish to me.

War, as Sherman noted, was the remedy those 'fellow Americans' chose to further their aims. Given a choice between surrendering to their aggression or fighting their war out to the end, Lincoln chose to fight.

[Pontiac]

I guess if you can buy off on the premise that fighting fellow Americans who simply want their independence from FedGov™ is the moral equivalent of fighting barbaric religious terrorists, then the screed has some merit.

That was not my premise, which you well know.

And come to think of it, our enemy makes exactly that premise. Namely that they are fighting for the freedom of the Palestinians from the oppressive Zionist state and the Great Satan.